When my father arrived in Kenya, he had found the Kikuyu way of life similar to that of the British at the time the Romans invaded England 2,000 year…

- Louis Leakey

Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service…

- Louis Leakey

Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price.

- Louis Leakey

Far too often animals are put to sleep when they could be saved through proper care and nursing.

- Louis Leakey

The Dalmatian breed of dog has many primitive characteristics.

- Louis Leakey

The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic pote…

- Louis Leakey

There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.

- Louis Leakey

Stone tools are fossilized human behavior.

- Louis Leakey

To save an animal's life in order that it may suffer indefinitely is something I would never condone.

- Louis Leakey